Tokyopop signs Hee Jung Park
Tokyopop has signed a deal with Hee Jung Park, a top Korean comics artist. The multi book deal calls for US editions of ...
PR: Blue Dream Studios joins IDW
Animator/cartoonist Scott Christian Sava's all-ages Blue Dream Studios is becoming an imprint of IDW. Among the titles they'll publish, presumably, is The Dreamland...
German comics exhibition
Do you know anything about the history of comics in Germany? Us neither. Some light is shed in this Forbidden Planet International...
Zuda in March
It's the beginning of the month and that means a new bunch of Zuda comics. Eddie Sharam and James Woodhead’s ROAD was the...
Saul Bass vs Star Wars
http://www.youtube.com/v/z25t-PQDn5A
We're reasonably sure that the highly erudite folks who read The Beat get this joke, but just to give a little background, Bass was...
New Emerald City ComiCon poster
The Emerald City ComiCon is not, strictly speaking, an indie comics show, but it takes place in Seattle, so it sorta is by default....
Pop culture icons
The A.V. Club recently spotlighted some painters who take pop culture characters and paint 'em up in the style of Ingres or Rembrandt. Yeah,...
Ming Doyle’s Lady Gotham
Okay, here's a new one to rally behind: Ming Doyle's treatment for the little discussedMartha Wayne.
Much other good stuff at the site of this...
Butler boards Black Freighter
Everyone has been very, very sad that dear, dear Gerard Butler didn't end up with a role in WATCHMEN, although he and director...
The secret history of Vertigo?
After all the deep thots around here of late, cleanse your palette with this hilarious page.
To Do Tonight, Seattle: Lust
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Multimedia reading and performancePlus! Dazzling dancer Fuschia FoXXX! (Voted one of the Stranger's "Sexiest Citizens"!) Scantily-clad boy AND girl sirens, including Holly Chernobyl! (Also...
To Do Tonight, Cambridge, MA: ADrian Tomine
Thursday night, Adrian's at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, sponsored by the Harvard Bookstore.
Last night, he addressed a SRO crowd at the Librairie...
